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Vineyard, June 24, 1920, and another of 20 feet 2 inches, stranded in the landlocked 

 waters of a small harbor (Hadley's) on Naushon Island in July 1937. There is nothing 

 in the published record to suggest that the zone of most frequent occurrence ever extended 

 much farther west or south than this along the North American coast, there being occa- 

 sional records only for Long Island," one or two near New York (one in New York Har- 

 bor many years ago) and about six for the coast of New Jersey, with one probable and one 

 positive record for North Carolina." The only reports of Basking Sharks farther south in 

 the western Atlantic are for northern Argentina*' and the Falkland Islands,*' which may be 

 distinct from those of the North Atlantic (p. 147). 



Synonyms and References: 



North and South Atlantic and South Africa:" 



Squalus maximus Gunnerus, K. norske Vidensk.-Selsk. Skr. Trondh., 1765: 33, pi. 2 (type locality, Trond- 

 hjem, Norway); Drontheim Gesellsch. Schr. Leipzig, 5, 1767: 28, pi. 2 (German translation of the 

 foregoing); Linnaeus, Syst. Nat., 12th ed. 1766: 400 (descr.) ; Gunnerus, K. norske Gesellsch. Wiss. 

 Skr. Kbh. u. Leipzig, 4, 1770: 13, pi. 4 (descr., Norway) ; Olafsen and Povclsen, Reyse en Island, 1772: 

 988 (Iceland, not seen); Reise durch Island (German translation), 2, 1774: 204 (South Iceland); Pen- 

 nant, Brit. Zool., 5, 1776: lOl (Isle of Arran, embryo, fishery); Olavius, Oecon. Reyse Island, 1780: 

 80 (Iceland, not seen); Mohr, Fors0g. Island. Naturh., 1786: 60 (Iceland); Bonnaterre, Tabl. Encyc. 

 Meth. Ichthyol., 1788: 10 (descr.); Gmelin, Syst. Nat., i, 1789: 1498 (descr.); Bloch and Schneider, 

 Syst. Ichthyol., 1801: 134 (descr.); Olafsen and Povelsen, Voy. en Island, 5, 1802: 278 (Iceland); 

 Lehmann, Neue Schr. Naturf . Freunde, Berlin,.^, 1 803: 1 20; Bosc, Nouv. Diet. Hist, nat., 2/, 1 803: 185 

 (diagn.); Latreille, Nouv. Diet. Hist, nat., 24, 1 804: 72 (in table of contents); Turton, Brit. Fauna, 

 1807: 113 (Gt. Brit.); Home, Philos. Trans., 2, 1809: 206 (descr., anat.) ; J. Physique, 7/, 1810: 241 

 (descr., anat.); Philos. Trans., 2 (2), 1813: 227, pi. 6 (descr., anat.); Mitchill, Trans. Lit. Phil. Soc. 

 N. Y., I, 1815: 486 (fishery near Provincetown) ; Couch, Trans. Linn. Soc. Lond., Zool., 14, 1 825: 91 

 (Cornwall, size); Vrolik, Bijdr. Natuurk. Wetensch. Amsterdam, r, 1826: 305 (Holland); Fleming, 

 Hist. Brit. Anim., 1828: 164 (descr., Gt. Brit.); Vrolik, Z. Organ. Physik, 2, 1828: 490 (Holland); 

 Faber, Fische Islands, 1829: 20 (distrib., habits); Nilsson, Prod. Ichthyol. Scand., 1832: 114 (Scandi- 

 navia); Agassiz, L., Poiss. Foss., j, 1835-1843: 87, pi. F, fig. 8, 8"; Yarrell, Brit. Fish., 1836: 366 

 (descr., Gt. Brit.) ; Couch, Cornish Fauna, 1838: 51 (size) ; Bennett, Narr. Whaling Voy., 2, 1840: 240 

 (Gt. Brit.); Owen, Odontogr., 1 840-1845: 27 (teeth); Linsley, Amer. J. Sci., 47, 1844: 77 (Long 

 Island Sound) ; Gaimard, Voy. Islands et Groenland, Zool. Med., 1 851: 163 (Iceland) ; Schlegel, Natuurl. 

 Hist. Nederland Dieren, 1862: 191, pL 19, fig. I (size); Brito Capello, J. Sci. math. phys. nat. 

 Lisboa, 2, 1870: 233 (Portugal); Gervais and Gervais, C. R. Acad. Sci. Paris, ^2, 1876: 1237 (descr., 

 Concarneau) ; J. Zool., 5, 1876: 319 (descr., ill. of head of juv., gills, rakers, teeth, vertebrae, Concar- 

 neau, France); Gervais and Boulart, Poiss., 5, 1877: 190, pi. 73 (descr.); Buckland, Hist. Brit. Fish., 

 1881: 215 (Gt. Brit.); Pengelly, Zoologist, (3) 5, 1 891: 337 (Devonshire). 



Basking Shark, Pennant, Brit. Zool., 5, 1769: 38, 342 (descr., distrib., embryo); Shaw, Gen. Zool., 5 (2), 

 1804: 327, pi. 149, 150 (general); Pennant, Brit. Zool., $, 1812: 134 (addit. record); Low, Fauna 

 Orcadensis, 1813: 173 (Orkneys, fishery); Brabazon, Deep Sea Coast Fish. Ireland, 1848: frontispiece, 

 48 (fishery); Couch, Trans, nat. Hist. Soc. Penzance, 1864: 234 (not seen); Fish. Brit. Isles, 1862: 

 60, pi. 14 (not seen); i, 1867: 60, pi. 14 (descr., habits, Gt. Brit.); Cornish, Zoologist, (2) 5, 1870: 



34. Most recently a 12-foot specimen taken off Fire Island, July 1944 (see Study Material, p. 147). 



35. Coles, Proc. biol. Soc. Wash., 78, 1915: 92; Brimley, J. Elisha Mitchell sci. Soc, 57, 1935: 311. 



36. Lahille, An. Mus. nac. B. AireS; j^, 1928: 325; Pozzi and Bordale, An. Soc. cient. argent., /so, 1935: 150. 



37. Norman, "Discovery" Rep., 16 (2), 1937: 143. 



38. References for the South Atlantic and South Africa are included for convenience. 



